Tokyo, Jan. 31.
ypan's pledge to keep Manchuria's door open rapidly is tecomjing a legend. Not on! industries financed, by Japanese Jeapital, many of them of a mono-sprouting up ike mushrooms liste, character, in Manchoukuo, products cheaper than they are sold in Japan proper, and thus: make it doubly certain' that foreign, reducts will be kept out, have been substantiated. It is a signal fact, observers point out, that, although there have been 'a number of European and American business} representatives in Tokyo for some time, endeavouring to get Japan to live up to its promise to afford an equal opportunity for all in Manchuria, they have thus far got nowhere. Meanwhile, of course, the Japanese have gone ahead developing industries and markets in ithe new state, Consequently, many people are beginning to suspect—and not, perhaps, without excellent reasons—tha: Japan intends to make Manchoukuo a closed shop unless strong Pressure is brought to bear on her. So plain is it that Japan is flaunting the world in. this respect, that the matter bea has. brought up in the Diet here. January 30, Mr. Kumeshiro Kato, lof the Sei kai, the majority party, charged in the Lower House that JJapan was monoplising the markets in Manchuria. He wanted to know whether this was against, the principles Laid down inthe Nine} Power Pact,
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